Here are some of the photographs that I took during my two visits to the Griffith Observatory in October. It was partly-to-mostly cloudy the first evening due to a persistent low pressure region that sat off the coast. A rather chromatically-aberrated Vega was the only celestial object that I saw through a telescope. The skies were clear during the second visit and three 11-inch Celestron Schmidt-Cassegrains were set up outside of the observatory complex. In addition to Uranus (through the observatory's primary instrument), I had a peek at Albireo, NGC 457 (the Owl Cluster), and the Double Cluster through the SCTs.

Dave Mitsky

October 6th visit

The Hollywood Sign on Mt. Lee on the way up Mt. Hollywood to the Griffith Observatory